Trophy Fishing

I wanted to share a few pics from our vacation last week in Cabo San Lucas!

My parents bought me a nice fishing trip for my birthday/Christmas this year. I finally had some free time to go! My dad chartered a boat RedRum for  two day fishing.

Usually there are 4-6 people per boat. However, he chartered the boat for the two of us for two days. This gave us better odds of catching some real big game fish mainly Marlin & Dorado, AKA as mahimahi. Anyway we caught 6Marlin & Dorado.

The average weight for females Dorados is 30-40lbs. The male known as the Bull Dorado fluctuates between 35-70lbs. The world record is 85lbs caught on 80lb test line which took 30 minutes to land. Here comes the good part. I hooked a Bull Dorado 60lb test line with 100lb leader.

I have fished all over the world, have landed a 200lb SailFish in Acapulco and this trip landed 3 over 160lbs-175lbs approx.

Anyway this Dorado was the biggest the Captain and his first mate had ever seen. Unofficially this fish came in approx. 95-100lbs over 5ft. I fought this Bull for 1hour and 5 minutes. It got to the boat five times and every time I thought this was over he would run off another 30-50yards, jump up, and spin.

I have been fishing since I was 9 and I have caught a lot of fish with spunk. But nothing as strong and determined to be free as this Bull Dorado. This was the King. He wore me out to the point I had no energy left when I finally got him to the boat. My dad was filming this on my DVD Recorder, which we have 60 minutes of live footage. After 1hour of the most magnificent fight I have ever encountered, I decided to let him go, if I got him to the boat.

My Dad and the Captain and 1st mate were saying I was crazy. We had to take this to shore to have it weighed on a digital Scale for it to count for the world record.

However, the last moment were my adrenaline had gone into overdrive. I saw the Fish as the Dorado King. He had taken every last bit of my strength. As we looked at each other with him still pulling, in that last moment between life and death when the gaff is ready to pull him in, I hesitated and said wait.

In that last few seconds he saw his opportunity and made one last attempt for freedom back to the Sea and bit through a 100lb leader.

Even though the Captain called this a confirmed catch and probably a world record, I know even though this was my toughest opponent in any match that I had participated. Years of Martial Arts tournaments. I know The Dorado beat me by a slim margin.

Off to the Sea he swam still King of the Dorados. A true Champion who stood the true test to beat man at his own Game.